UN FORCES IN KOREA Part 2

Description

Summary: Following is an Australian newsreel story: BATTLE IN KOREA (AIR BATTLE, TROOPS IN ACTION).: Huts in deserted village. Refugees parked along roadway. Apples being put in tray held by two women. Old man with pipe. Korean with horsehair hat. SK troops rest in cleared area. MS, man cleans mortar. Young Korean comd addresses his troops. Two women guerrillas in trucks with SK troops. Troops move out. SKs join soldiers on Hill 660. Several soldiers look at dead NK. Soldiers eat tinned rations. Americans on hill look below to town. Two spotting planes, a Mosquito and an L-plane, taking off. UN observers, two Australians, British, and a Major from El Salvador. An American and Aussie airman. One talks to a Korean boy. CU, filling belly tank with napalm. CU, putting fuze on aerial bomb. AV, US planes fires rockets and strafes Hill 660 - good action, even though a bit dark. In valley of Taegu, a few prisoners are brought in by SK guard. One prisoner carries man on his back. (scratch) Two women. Pan to, Korean on stretcher. Men, Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders fire mortars. Man on radio. Two F-51s, 77th RAAF Sqd take off. MS, American, Canadian, Negro, an Aussie watch. AVs, attack on roadblock near bridge, strafing town, rockets streak twds terrain, bomb hits, napalm explosion. More rockets. (good action). AV, plane flying away from camera through the smoke haze over city.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities